The House of Fortune begins on Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday, also the day on which her mother Marin died. Her aunt Nella is desperate to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, but when she attends an exclusive ball that could secure their fates, she feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck and wonders if the miniaturist has returned... Returning to Amsterdam eighteen years after the events of 'The Miniaturist'.,